Manish Mittal - Senior Vice President - Research - AI

Manish has close to two decades of experience across market research and analytics. In the past decade, he has held several leadership positions with the responsibility of driving business expansion and innovative business solutions based on Artificial Intelligence and other leading technologies.
Manish co-founded MarketGate Dimensions, a market research firm which was sold to Publics Groupe in 2012. He is a recognized expert in the industries of research and analytics and is a frequent speaker at industry conferences such as ESOMAR, TMRE, ILC, R&R, MRSI, and World Marketing Congress. He is frequently invited for guest lectures at leading management institutes in India

Venu Bendapudi - Vice President - Client Development

Venu is a principal with a global outlook and has extensive experience in sales, marketing and operations, mostly in the IT and Market Research industries. He is now based in Orlando FL, and is responsible for Course5's business development and client relations in North America.

Stephan Mayer - Principal

Stephan is doing sales and BD on the West Coast, catering to end clients and market research agencies. Prior to joining Cross-Tab, Stephan worked as a VP, Quantitative Intelligence with Chatter, Inc., where he built and grew a quantitative research practice from the ground up, outsourcing most operations. During this time Stephan established his core expertise answering business questions centered on brand assessment/positioning, A&U and concept development; industry verticals were entertainment, healthcare, finance and CPG. Stephan began working in consumer market research with Lieberman Research Worldwide as a Project Director in 1996. Since then Stephan has held positions in project management, data processing, operations management and analysis, both domestically and overseas, specializing in interactive data collection methods and in international studies. His experience includes a Research Manager position with OTX (home entertainment) and five years with TNS, where he specialized in designing and executing studies in the travel & transport, entertainment and automotive industries. He was instrumental in starting one of the travel industry's most influential syndicated studies.